Week 2 The Brain and Learning

This week I've been asked to find two online resources regarding this weeks topic, The brain and learning. Below are the two resources as well as the value I perceived from these resources.



Resource 1:    Learning & The Brain

Learning & the Brain is a great resource when learning about how the brain learns information. The article I found was called, "Working Memory Cheat Sheet".  I really enjoyed this read. One thing I've always struggled with was remembering things shortly after I've been told them. It was interesting to learn how my brain works and different ways to try to get better at remembering things.




Resource 2:  Simply Psychology

Simply Psychology is a great resource for all things Psychology. In the link above, I found an article that talks about Information Processing Theory. In this article it explains how our brain processes inforamation and how it determines what store in our short term memory and what is eventually in our long term memory. One thing that I found interesting in this article, is that when recalling information, we are only seeing very little of what we have stored in long term memory. Long term memory has unlimited storage so we will always be able to store memories and information there to recall at a later time.